Python Job Trends in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 32 44
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 -26
Permanent jobs citing Python 19 26 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 1.38% 4.79% 4.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.43% 17.69% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 29
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,200 £34,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £48,306 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -19.49% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,400 £81,600 £72,433
North West median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 109 147 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.93% 27.07% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 90 85 267
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,807 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £63,438 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,200 £87,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Python
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 8 £79,000 - 1
Warrington -9 6 £42,500 -12.02% 3
Macclesfield -7 3 £30,000 -7.69% 5
Chester -7 1 £40,000 - 7
Crewe -11 1 £65,000 - 1
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) OpenStack
2 2 (10.53%) WordPress
3 1 (5.26%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) SaaS
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Run
6 1 (5.26%) Datadog
6 1 (5.26%) IaaS
6 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DHCP
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
1 2 (10.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) GIS
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
1 3 (15.79%) GitLab
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (31.58%) Banking
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Games
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.53%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Games Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Graduate
3 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Games Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Trainee
3 2 (10.53%) Trainee Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Web Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) DPDK
1 3 (15.79%) eBPF
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) Django
3 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.26%) Keras
3 1 (5.26%) NETCONF
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) RESTCONF
3 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.26%) NVMe
3 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
1 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
2 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
4 4 (21.05%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
4 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
4 4 (21.05%) Open Source
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Data Science
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Statistical Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) User Experience
5 3 (15.79%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) R
3 3 (15.79%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) C++
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.26%) HNC
3 1 (5.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
1 3 (15.79%) KVM
1 3 (15.79%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) SaltStack
2 2 (10.53%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Pega